ingrained

English

Alternative forms

• engrained

Etymology

From ingrain +‎ -ed.

Adjective

ingrained (comparative more ingrained, superlative most ingrained)

1. Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎^[1]:

     But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

2. Fixed, established

Synonyms

• (in the essence of a thing): inherent; See also Thesaurus:intrinsic
• (fixed, established): bred-in-the-bone, radicated; See also Thesaurus:inveterate

Translations

in the essence of a thing; being an element

• Portuguese: inato (pt)

fixed, established

• Finnish: syvään juurtunut, juurtunut (fi), syöpynyt (fi)
• German: ^{(please verify)} verwurzelt (de)
• Portuguese: enraizado (pt)
• Spanish: arraigado (es), enraizado (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} inrotad (sv), ^{(please verify)} ingrodd (sv)

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• Chinese: ^{(please verify)} 根深蒂固的 (gēnshēndìgù de)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ingeworteld (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} angeboren (de), ^{(please verify)} eingefleischt (de) (1); ^{(please verify)} eingewurzelt (de) (2)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} incallito (it) m, ^{(please verify)} inveterato (it)
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} вроден m (vroden) (1), ^{(please verify)} вкоренет m (vkorenet) (2)

Verb

ingrained

1. simple past and past participle of ingrain

Anagrams

• deraining, indearing, reading in